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The 2016 election of Donald Trump convinced Heather McGhee to quit her job at Demos and write this book. Specifically, McGhee had long assumed that people vote in their rational self-interest, but Trump’s election made it clear that racial resentment often drives white people to vote against their economic self-interest. Indeed, Trump’s platform embodies the zero-sum paradigm: he blames immigrants and Black people for white people’s economic struggles, while pushing for pro-business policies that only make those struggles worse (like tax cuts and anti-union laws).
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Today, the racial zero-sum story is resurgent because there is a political movement invested in ginning up white resentment toward lateral scapegoats (similarly or worse-situated people of color) to escape accountability for a massive redistribution of wealth from the many to the few. For four years, a tax-cutting and self-dealing millionaire trumpeted the zero-sum story from the White House, but the Trump presidency was in many ways brought to us by two decades of zero-sum propaganda on the ubiquitous cable news network owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.
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Donald Trump Quotes in The Sum of Us
The The Sum of Us quotes below are all either spoken by Donald Trump or refer to Donald Trump . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Today, the racial zero-sum story is resurgent because there is a political movement invested in ginning up white resentment toward lateral scapegoats (similarly or worse-situated people of color) to escape accountability for a massive redistribution of wealth from the many to the few. For four years, a tax-cutting and self-dealing millionaire trumpeted the zero-sum story from the White House, but the Trump presidency was in many ways brought to us by two decades of zero-sum propaganda on the ubiquitous cable news network owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.
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